Institute of Historical Research Military History in Cananda Panel 3: Economic Warfare Reading the World’s Mail: British Blockade Intelligence and Economic Warfare, 1914-1918 John Ferris (Professor of History, University of Calgary, Canada) John Ferris is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary, where he is also a Fellow at The Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He received an MA and a PhD in War Studies, from King's College, London. He has published four books and sixty academic articles or chapters in books, on diplomatic, intelligence and military history, as well as contemporary strategy and intelligence. His books have been published in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, The United States and the United Kingdom: they also have been translated into French, Hebrew and Japanese. He comments in national and international media, on Canadian and American foreign and military policy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, intelligence, and nuclear weapons. A one day conference in collaboration with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies and the Department of History, University of Calgary and the History of Warfare Research Group, King’s College London.